I was just listening to Hilary Clinton gloating abut winning the popularity contest in Florida. What most impressed me was when she spoke of a woman whose children got shot, because it was a clear demonstration of how stupidly politicians speak to us. She didn't actually say they got shot. Nope. According to the wordsmith, she "lost them to gun violence." Just think about that. What the hell does it even mean? What is gun violence? And now that gun violence has her kids, what's it going to do with them? If she must use these people's great misfortune to make campaign points, why can't she just say they got shot? By somebody? Nope. Apparently it was one of them damn violent guns they got lost to.
Anyway if you listen closely it happens all the time. We're spoken to like we're stupid. I don't think Hilary said to Bill, "That was sure sad about that woman losing her children to gun violence." So maybe we are stupid and that's what we deserve. We're sitting there watching tv aren't we? We're paying attention to their little game like we really have a stake in it, aren't we? Just getting stoopider all the time...
Okay I suppose this is code for "I'm in favor of gun control." So her erudite supporters used to communicating in riddles get that while all the gun toters don't detect anything wrong with it. Winking at the gun controllers, faking out the toters. When it gets to this point it's pretty clear they're just wasting our stupid time.
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